Reliant Stadium

The message was clear and poignant about the future of Super Bowls in South Florida: The big game isn’t coming back until significant improvements are made to Sun Life Stadium. NFL owners didn’t merely snub South Florida twice in a matter of minutes Tuesday in awarding Super Bowl L to San Francisco and Super Bowl LI to Houston. They signaled that the stadium is no longer a viable site for the league’s premier game. Both games were awarded on the first vote, which required a super majority of at least 24 of the 32 owners. “I’ve been saying for a while that we need to do something to our stadium,” Miami Dolphins owner Steve Ross said. “I...

As the Ravens were struggling to put away the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, their final two opponents of the regular season were dealing with issues of their own.
The Houston Texans lost their starting quarterback, Ryan Fitzpatrick, to a broken tibia...

Pablo Beltran has gone from reluctant punter, to major Division I prospect, to somewhat uncertain service academy recruit to one of Navy's greatest punters and a possible professional prospect.
It's been kind of a crazy ride for the Texas native, whose...

The Navy football team has accomplished all of its preseason goals in 2013: the Midshipmen beat both of their service academy rivals to retain the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy for the second straight year and won the requisite number of games to earn a...

Tom Brady is a real nice guy.
Maybe a little too nice. His kind spirit ended up costing a couple of part-time security guards at Reliant Stadium in Houston their jobs.
Joel Williams told KHOU-TV that he was about to clock out following the Texans' 34-31...

Now that voters have rejected a plan to save the Houston Astrodome, a marvel of engineering muscle and space-age glamour and easily the city's most important building, it would be easy to conclude that modern architecture has a major image problem in this...

So much for the Astrodome’s new lease on life.
Voters rejected a countywide ballot measure Tuesday that would have raised more than $200 million to restore the domed stadium in Houston and turn it into a multipurpose event center. Prop. 2 failed by a...

HOUSTON — Forget Monticello or the Chrysler building: There may be no piece of architecture more quintessentially American than the Astrodome.
Widely copied after it opened in 1965, it perfectly embodies postwar U.S. culture in its brash combination of...

The message was clear and poignant about the future of Super Bowls in South Florida:
The big game isn’t coming back until significant improvements are made to Sun Life Stadium.
NFL owners didn’t merely snub South Florida twice in a matter of minutes...

If there was any lingering doubt that Ed Reed was intent about testing the free agent market and leaving the only NFL organization he’s ever known, it should have been erased Thursday afternoon when the long-time Ravens safety stepped off a plane...

Ed Reed sure seems to be serious about exploring his options on the open market.
As I write this, the free-agent safety is in Houston, where the Texans have rolled out the red carpet for the likely future Hall-of-Famer. They scooped him up in a private...

Ravens All-Pro outside linebacker Terrell Suggs could play Sunday against the Houston Texans.
The Ravens on Saturday activated the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year from the physically-unable-to-perform list, a procedural move required under...

Many NFL coaches are quick to suggest that the rigors of training camp can shape a player's propensity for success during the regular season.Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt may be the poster boy who dispels that notion.Watt leads the league in...

Whenever Ravens running back Ray Rice carries the football or catches passes Sunday, Arian Foster intends to keep a close watch.
And it's not because the Houston Texans' star is required to observe his counterpart when he's on the sideline at Reliant...

Downplaying the severity of a torn labrum in his shoulder, Ravens free safety Ed Reed emphasized that the injury won't affect his tackling.One day after revealing the injury on 105.7 The Fan and acknowledging the injury has had a negative effect, Reed...

Every week, I hope to bring you a quick Q&A with someone who covers the Ravens’ opponent that week. On Sunday, the Ravens will take on the Houston Texans in Houston. Stephanie Stradley blogs about the Texans for The Houston Chronicle, and she was kind...

If you believe Jacoby Jones, the hurt and the anger and the frustration have finally subsided.Jones says he doesn’t care how Houston fans will receive him on Sunday and that playing his former team, the Houston Texans, will be just like any other game. He...

You’ve probably seen this by now but it’s worth reiterating. By virtue of the Denver Broncos’ comeback victory last night against the San Diego Chargers, only two of the AFC’s 16 teams will enter Week Seven with a winning record. Those teams – the...